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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the great army of federated states with which we were
planning to march upon the Mahars.
I explained the various destructive engines of war
which Perry and I could construct after a little
experimentation--gunpowder, rifles, cannon, and the like,
and Dian would clap her hands, and throw her arms about my neck,
and tell me what a wonderful thing I was. She was beginning
to think that I was omnipotent although I really hadn't
done anything but talk--but that is the way with women
when they love. Perry used to say that if a fellow was
one-tenth as remarkable as his wife or mother thought him,
At the Earth's Core |
